It’s funny how our concept of “self-realisation” may change. Leaving the suburbs of Chicago, learning a new sport in the streets, becoming the Horizon League’s “player of the year” for two years in a row, being a step away from the NBA and being transferred to one of the major Italian professional teams means being successful. However, someone in the audience disagrees: if a basketball player doesn’t join the NBA, he is a loser.

To write her new book, the writer Francesca Melandri does a thorough research between Italy and Ethiopia on the past of her father Franco during the fascist dictatorship, and despite he was a racist, once the war ended, he preferred to delete from his memory his affiliation to the regime. In the investigation on the parent however, the writer comes across collective stories of the war of Ethiopia, one of the most violent pages of Italian history. Continua la lettura di “PAGINE NASCOSTE” by SABRINA VARANI→